Psychology

Lorraine Hope

Dr. Lorraine Hope

Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology

Psychology

lorraine.hope@port.ac.uk

Profile

Background

BA (Hons) University of Lancaster
MSc University of Bristol
PhD University of Aberdeen

I joined the Department as a Lecturer in 2004 and I am a member of the International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology. Prior to this, I was a researcher at the University of Aberdeen and worked on a number of projects examining the particular strengths and vulnerabilities associated with eyewitnesses and, in particular, older eyewitnesses. During this period, I also worked with the Eyewitness Research Group and the local Grampian Police on associated projects, including the production of facial composites, such as E-fits. I also have an interest in jury systems and biases associated with juror and jury decision-making and my doctoral work examined the impact of biases on memory and decision-making.

 

Teaching Responsibilities

I am Unit Co-ordinator for the following Units:
     Psychology and the legal process (MSc Forensic Psychology)
     Cognitive and Social Psychological Perspective on Persuasion & Influence (BSc
     Psychology;  BSc Psychology & Criminology)
     Introduction to Cognitive Processes (BSc Psychology; BSc Psychology & Criminology).   

I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations on eyewitness recall and identification, legal decision making, social influence and other applied memory topics.

Research Projects

  • Interviewing eyewitnesses: Enhancing output quantity and diagnosing accuracy.Collaborators:  Professor Neil Brewer (Flinders University) and Dr Fiona Gabbert (University of Abertay)
  • Memory Contamination and Co-witness Interactions; Collaborator: Fiona Gabbert (University of Abertay).
  • Design & Development of a Scene of Crime Recall Tool. Collaborators: Fiona Gabbert (University of Abertay);  Professor Ron Fisher (Florida International University)
  • A Survey of Practitioners' Beliefs regarding Trauma and Memory. Collaborators: James Ost (University of Portsmouth); Professor Chris French (Goldsmiths); Daniel Wright (University of Sussex) & Simon Easton (University of Portsmouth).

Recent Publications

 

More recent publications

 

PUBLICATIONS

Hope, L. & Gabbert, F. (2011).  Protecting Eyewitness Evidence: What can the Self Administered Interview (SAI©) contribute to the investigation of road traffic incidents. Impact, 19, 15-18.

Vrij, A, Jundi, S., Hope, L., Hillman, J., Gahr, E., Leal, S., Warmelink, L., Mann, S., Vernham, Z., Granhag, P-A. (In Press). Collective interviewing of suspects.  Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Hope, L., Lewinski, W., Dixon, J., Blocksidge, D. & Gabbert, F. (In Press). Witnesses in action: The effect of physical exertion on recall and recognition. Psychological Science.

Vrij, A, Mann, S., Jundi, S., Hope, L. & Leal, S. (In Press). Can I take your picture? Undercover interviewing to detect deception. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.  

Gabbert, F., Hope, L., Fisher, R. P., & Jamieson, K. (In Press). Protecting against susceptibility to misinformation with the use of a Self-Administered Interview. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Hope, L. & Waller, B. (2011).  Twelve (not so) Angry Men:  Jurors work better in small groups.  Criminal Justice Matters. 86, 8-9.

Ost, J., Wright, D.B. Easton, S., Hope, L., & French, C. (In Press).  Recovered memories, satanic abuse, dissociative identity disorder and false memories in the United Kingdom: A survey of clinical psychologists and hypnotherapists. Psychology, Crime and Law.

Heaton-Armstrong, A., Wolchover, D., Hope, L. & Gabbert, F. (2011).  Conferring beyond the crossroads.  Criminal Law & Justice, 175, Part 1:557-559, Part 2: 575 -577, Part 3: 593-595.

Waller, B., Hope, L. & Burrowes, N. (In press).  Twelve (not so) angry men: The impact of conversational group size on juror participation. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

Hope, L., Gabbert, F., & Fisher, R. (2011). From laboratory to the street: Capturing witness memory using the Self-Administered Interview. Legal and criminological psychology, 16, 211-226.

Hope, L. (2010).  Eyewitness Testimony. In G. Towl & D. Crighton (Eds.) Forensic Psychology. Wiley. In Press

Hope, L. (2010).  Jury Decision-making. In J. Brown and E. Campbell (Eds.). Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology. First edition. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. In Press.

Mearns, K., Hope, L., Ford, M. T. & Tetrick, L. E. (2009). Investment in workforce health: Exploring the implications for workforce safety climate and commitment.  Accident Analysis and Prevention, Available online 9 September 2009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2009.08.009

Gabbert, F., Hope, L. & Fisher, R. P. (2009). Protecting Eyewitness Evidence: Examining the Efficacy of a Self-Administered Interview Tool. Law & Human Behavior, 33, 298-307.

Hope, L., Greene, E., Memon, A., Gavisk, M., & Houston, K. (2008). The third verdict: Examining the availability of a Not Proven verdict on mock juror decision making. Law and Human Behavior, 32, 241-252.

Hope, L., Ost, J., Gabbert, F., Healey, S., & Lenton, E. (2008). “With a little help from my friends…”: The role of co-witness relationship in susceptibility to misinformation. Acta Psychologica, 127, 476-484.

Hope, L., & Wright, D. (2007). Beyond unusual? Examining the role of attention in the weapon focus effect. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 951-961.

Hope, L., & Mearns, K. (2007). Managing health risks in the offshore workplace: Impact on health climate, safety climate and risk identification. International Journal of Risk Assessment & Management, 7, 152-164.

Hope, L., & Memon, A. (2006).  Cross-Border Diversity: Trial by Jury in England and Scotland.  To appear in Kaplan, M. F. & Martin Rodriguez, A. M. (Editors).  Understanding World Juries through Psychological Research.  Psychology Press. 

Mearns, K. & Hope, L. (2005). The Management of Health in the Offshore Environment. HSE Books.

Hope, L., Memon, A., & McGeorge, P. (2004). Understanding pretrial publicity: Predecisional distortion of evidence by mock jurors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 10, 111-119.

Memon, A., Gabbert, F., & Hope, L. (2004).  The Aging Eyewitness.  In J. R. Adler (Ed). Forensic Psychology, Current Concepts and Debates.  Willan Forensic Psychology Series:  Portland.

Memon, A., Hope, L., & Bull, R. (2003). Exposure Duration: Effects on eyewitness accuracy and confidence. British Journal of Psychology, 94, 339-354.

Memon, A., Hope, L., Bartlett, J.C. & Bull, R. (2002). Eyewitness recognition errors: The effects of mugshot viewing and choosing in young and old adults. Memory and Cognition, 30, 1219-1227.

 

Technical Reports

Gabbert, F. & Hope, L. (January, 2012). Field Evaluation of the Self-Administered Interview. Report for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Investigative Interviewing Committee.

Hope, L. & Gabbert, F. (2010). The Impact of Conferring on Individual and Collaborative Recall in a Policing Context. Report for the Metropolitan Police Service & Metropolitan Police Federation.

Hillstrom, A. P., Hope, L., & Nee, C. (2008). Applying psychological science to the CCTV review process. Report for the Home Office (Scientific Development).

Mearns, K. & Hope, L. (2005). The Management of Health in the Offshore Environment. HSE Books.

 

 

RESEARCH GRANTS

 

Economic & Social Research Council.  Learning from the expert: Can observing the oculomotor behaviour of expert face processors improve training of face matching?  Hillstrom, A., Hope, L. & Sauer, J. (Awarded:  January 2012).

Home Office Scientific Development Branch.  Review of training methods for facial image comparison. Hillstrom, A., Hope, L. & Sauer, J. (Awarded:  December  2010).

Higher Education Investment Fund.  Hope, L. Self Administered Interview Recall Tool: Website Development (Awarded: August, 2010).

British Academy (£7,496). Flowe, H., Hope, L., & Hillstrom, A. Beyond novelty? Oculomotor evidence of the role of attention in the weapon focus effect (Awarded:  March 2010).

Higher Education Investment Fund.  Hope, L. Market Assessment of the Self Administered Interview Recall Tool (Awarded: August, 2009)

Economic & Social Research Council.  Gabbert, F. & Hope, L.  Improving the delivery of justice for victims, witnesses and society: Field Trials of the Self Administered Interview Recall Tool. (Awarded: August, 2009).

Economic & Social Research Council. Hope, L., Gabbert, F. & Brewer, N.  Interviewing eyewitnesses: Enhancing output quantity and diagnosing accuracy. (Bilateral Programme Award RES-000-22-3169: April 2009)

Australian Research Council. Brewer, N., Hope, L. & Gabbert, F. Interviewing eyewitnesses: Enhancing output quantity and diagnosing accuracy. (Bilateral Programme Award; April 2009)

Metropolitan Police Service & Metropolitan Police Federation.  Hope, L. & Gabbert, F. Examining the Impact of Conferring on Individual and Collaborative Recall in a Policing Context. (Awarded: January 2009).

Home Office Scientific Development Branch.  Hillstrom, A., Hope, L. & Nee, C.  Applying psychological science to the CCTV review process: A review of cognitive and ergonomic literature (Awarded: January 2008).

British Academy. Gabbert, F., Hope, L., & Fisher, R.  Protecting Eyewitness Evidence: Testing the efficacy of a Self-Administered Interview tool. (Award Period: 2007-2008)

Nuffield Foundation. Hope, L. Monitoring target search activity in a sequential lineup: Can we identify a successful identification strategy?  (Summer Bursary Award: 2007).

 British Academy.  Gabbert, F., Hope, L., & Fisher, R. Supporting Eyewitness Memory with a Self-Administered Scene of Crime Recall Tool.  (AwardPeriod: March-November, 2006)

Nuffield Foundation. Hope, L. Memory and arousal:  Examining the role of attention in the weapon focus effect.  (Summer Bursary Award: 2006).

British Psychological Society Research Seminars Competition.  Blank, H., HopeL., Gabbert, F., Wright, D. & Ost, J.  Examining Social Influence on Memory: From Theory to Application. (Award Period: 2006)

 

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES

 

  • Invited Seminar:  Witness Memory and the Self Administered Interview.  Metropolitan Police, London (6 January 2012).
  • Invited Seminar:  Witness Memory – Tools & Techniques to Enhance Recall.  Greater Manchester Police – Meeting of Investigative Interviewing Regional Advisors (28 September 2011)
  • Invited Seminar:  The Self-Administered Interview: Capturing Witness Memory at the Scene. CEPOL European Police College, Stockholm, Sweden (25 May 2011).
  • Invited Presentation:  Interviewing eyewitnesses: Enhancing output quantity and diagnosing accuracy using the Grain Size technique.  British Psychological Society Workshop:  Metacognition:  Where next? Hosted by the University of Hull (5-7 November, 2010).
  • Invited Address: Improving Post-Crash Response (Roadpeace, London):  Witness statements – how to get the most from them (22 September, 2010)
  • Invited Seminar:  Capturing Eyewitness Memory.  Greater Manchester Police (20 September, 2010)
  • Invited Seminar:  Witness Memory and the Self Administered Interview.  Oslo Police Headquarters, Norway (25 & 26 August, 2010).
  • Invited Address:  Risky Business - Learning from other High Risk Industries for Patient and Public Safety (September, 2009). 
  • Invited Seminar: Capturing Memory: Psychology of Witness Memory (Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Belfast, June 2010)
  • Invited Plenary Symposium (July, 2009): Novel Procedures to Improve the Collection of Eyewitness Testimony’. Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Kyoto, Japan
  • Invited Presentation:  Forensic Psychology – Investigation & Interviewing Conference (University of Leicester, July 2009)
  • Invited Lecture: Capturing Memory: Psychology of Witness Memory (Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, Dublin;  May 2008 & 2009)
  • Invited Lecture:  Investigative Interviewing Meeting (British Transport Police; April 2009)
    • Invited Lecture:  Capturing Eyewitness Memory (Flinders University, Australia; March, 2009)
    • Invited Day Session:  Eyewitnesses & Jurors in the Criminal Justice System (University College Cork, Ireland; 2008 & 2010)

  For more information about the Self-Administered Interview (SAI©), please click on www.selfadministeredinterview.com

For more info click on my website: www.lorrainehope.com